I moved a medium slot to low and buffed the drones to 4/12 (as opposed to 3/9 before), and I replaced one turret hardpoint with a launcher hardpoint. The reason I moved the medium slot to low was to counter with the drone buff--it reduces the EWAR output of this ship, but true to Amarrian core design philosophy, it can fit a good armor tank. Its drones are less powerful than those of the Tristan, but with its other advantages I'd say it's pretty well balanced and makes an excellent counterpart to the Tristan.

What do you guys think?

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Because Minmatar are a race that uses mixed weapons as their primary weapons, namely Missiles and Projectiles, in all their designs? Amarr, in contrast, use Lasers as their primary weapon of choice with some influx of Drones. Only the Khanid, and thus only the Khanid T2 designs, employ missiles. Use them. Or do we really need even more Kestrels and Merlins, or ships that are inferior to these two frigates just for the sake of having choice without any real meaning or purpose?

Because Minmatar are a race that uses mixed weapons as their primary weapons, namely Missiles and Projectiles, in all their designs? Amarr, in contrast, use Lasers as their primary weapon of choice with some influx of Drones. Only the Khanid, and thus only the Khanid T2 designs, employ missiles. Use them. Or do we really need even more Kestrels and Merlins, or ships that are inferior to these two frigates just for the sake of having choice without any real meaning or purpose?

Ok, then we can have a droneboat T1 frigate then.

Because otherwise we're the only race with just 1 choice of primary weapon systems in our T1 frigate lineup. Gallente have drones and hybrids, Caldari are split between missiles and hybrids, and Minmatar have projectiles and one missile frigate.

Amarr is, once again, left out in the cold.

"Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws."

Because Minmatar are a race that uses mixed weapons as their primary weapons, namely Missiles and Projectiles, in all their designs? Amarr, in contrast, use Lasers as their primary weapon of choice with some influx of Drones. Only the Khanid, and thus only the Khanid T2 designs, employ missiles. Use them. Or do we really need even more Kestrels and Merlins, or ships that are inferior to these two frigates just for the sake of having choice without any real meaning or purpose?

Ok, then we can have a droneboat T1 frigate then.

Because otherwise we're the only race with just 1 choice of primary weapon systems in our T1 frigate lineup. Gallente have drones and hybrids, Caldari are split between missiles and hybrids, and Minmatar have projectiles and one missile frigate.

Did he say Jump

Dock Workers

I would say droneboat, having a missile boat in the Amarr frig lineup doesn't match with the current progression, there are the laser boats (Punisher, Executioner, Coercer, Maller, Omen, Harbinger, Apoc, Baddon) and then the droneboats with both missile and turret hardpoints, which are the Arbitrator, Prophecy, Dragoon and Geddon. Sadly there isn't this type of boat at the frigate level and I think it would be really nice, it could either have the neut bonus like the Geddon and Dragoon, or the tank bonus like the Prophecy, either would be a solid boat IMO.

Because Minmatar are a race that uses mixed weapons as their primary weapons, namely Missiles and Projectiles, in all their designs? Amarr, in contrast, use Lasers as their primary weapon of choice with some influx of Drones. Only the Khanid, and thus only the Khanid T2 designs, employ missiles. Use them. Or do we really need even more Kestrels and Merlins, or ships that are inferior to these two frigates just for the sake of having choice without any real meaning or purpose?

Ok, then we can have a droneboat T1 frigate then.

Because otherwise we're the only race with just 1 choice of primary weapon systems in our T1 frigate lineup. Gallente have drones and hybrids, Caldari are split between missiles and hybrids, and Minmatar have projectiles and one missile frigate.

Amarr is, once again, left out in the cold.

Crucifier?

Is an Ewar vessel without any bonused drones.

"Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws."

Because Minmatar are a race that uses mixed weapons as their primary weapons, namely Missiles and Projectiles, in all their designs? Amarr, in contrast, use Lasers as their primary weapon of choice with some influx of Drones. Only the Khanid, and thus only the Khanid T2 designs, employ missiles. Use them. Or do we really need even more Kestrels and Merlins, or ships that are inferior to these two frigates just for the sake of having choice without any real meaning or purpose?

Ok, then we can have a droneboat T1 frigate then.

Because otherwise we're the only race with just 1 choice of primary weapon systems in our T1 frigate lineup. Gallente have drones and hybrids, Caldari are split between missiles and hybrids, and Minmatar have projectiles and one missile frigate.

Amarr is, once again, left out in the cold.

New frigate hull maybe, changing current ones is not a good idea. Every frig in amarr lineup right now has it uses, even weird and situational punisher has a few.

About missile damage bonus:Gallente have no missile damage bonus hulls, why should amarr have one?

one more thing.There is no amarr t1 hull with such bonus, so why all of a sudden there should be one?(I'm talking about Destroyers; Cruisers; Battlecruisers; Battleships)

Because Minmatar are a race that uses mixed weapons as their primary weapons, namely Missiles and Projectiles, in all their designs? Amarr, in contrast, use Lasers as their primary weapon of choice with some influx of Drones. Only the Khanid, and thus only the Khanid T2 designs, employ missiles. Use them. Or do we really need even more Kestrels and Merlins, or ships that are inferior to these two frigates just for the sake of having choice without any real meaning or purpose?

Ok, then we can have a droneboat T1 frigate then.

Because otherwise we're the only race with just 1 choice of primary weapon systems in our T1 frigate lineup. Gallente have drones and hybrids, Caldari are split between missiles and hybrids, and Minmatar have projectiles and one missile frigate.

Amarr is, once again, left out in the cold.

New frigate hull maybe, changing current ones is not a good idea. Every frig in amarr lineup right now has it uses, even weird and situational punisher has a few.

About missile damage bonus:Gallente have no missile damage bonus hulls, why should amarr have one?

one more thing.There is no amarr t1 hull with such bonus, so why all of a sudden there should be one?(I'm talking about Destroyers; Cruisers; Battlecruisers; Battleships)

Gallente get something else instead, Drones.

So, like I said before. Every other race gets a secondary weapon in their T1 frigate lineup, why shouldn't Amarr get one too?

"Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws."

Because Amarr itself doesn't need to have other weapons than lasers? That is Amarr's philosophy. Only the Khanid divert from that because of their conditions and help from Caldari's LaiDai.

Personally, I don't need missiles. I love lasers and prefer them over missiles in most cases (HAM Legion and Vengeance are exceptions, and Malediction does more DPS with Autocannons than with Rockets at similar range).

Yes, 2 or 1 Hardpoints for the sake of variety, but not as indication of specialization. I doubt that 1 launcher hard point on a frigate is ... helpful, even in the name of variety.

As far as I remember, the Missile damage ship Inquisitor was removed in favor of the logistics role primarily because of the Venture, and secondarily because it was not uses all that much. And if I skim through the last winter's Dev post about these changes, I don't see much disagreement. So why now all of a sudden?